Enlightenment Quotes - Page 27

• Enlightenment means choosing to dwell in a state of presence rather than in time.  It means saying yes to what is.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Saying Yes, States

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.226, New World Library

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• So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger. One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Children, Mean, Journey

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.21, New World Library

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• Pain is the fuel that lights the flame of our enlightenment

  Eckhart Tolle

  Pain, Light, Flames

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• It is the courage to be authentic that keeps us strong enough to withstand the heartbreak through which enlightenment can occur. And it is by honoring how life comes through us that we get the most out of living, not by keeping ourselves out of the way. The goal is to mix our hands in the earth, not to stay clean.

  Mark Nepo

  Strong, Heart, Hands

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.56, Conari Press

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• The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment.
  Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness.
  So always strive for that.
  Set your life around that goal.
  Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Goal, Purpose, Gains

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• The goal of the Transcendental Meditation technique is the state of enlightenment. This means we experience that inner calmness, that quiet state of least excitation, even when we are dynamically busy.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mean, Goal, Meditation

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• Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.

  Pema Chodron

  Reality, Spirituality, Thrive

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• There is only one way of attaining liberation and of obtaining the omniscience of enlightenment: following an authentic spiritual master.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Way, Masters

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• God and I will achieve Supreme Enlightenment at the same moment.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Moments, Achieve, Supreme

  Lon Milo DuQuette (2010). “The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford: Dilettante's Guide to What You Do and Do Not Need to Know to Become a Qabalist”, p.202, Weiser Books

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• Enlightenment! When it comes, it comes like a brick to the head, doesn't it?

  Scott Lynch

  Bricks

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.129, Del Rey

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• Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as they are,' or in the most universally comprehensible way, and not as projections of our own emotions. Thunder is not a tantrum in the sky, disease is not a divine punishment, and not every death or accident results from witchcraft. What we call the Enlightenment and hold on to only tenuously, by our fingernails, is the slow-dawning understanding that the world is unfolding according to its own inner algorithms of cause and effect, probability and chance, without any regard for human feelings.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Struggle, Sky, Punishment

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.149, Macmillan

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• People mistakenly think that art is about nature, or about an artists feelings about nature. It is instead a path of enlightenment and pleasure, one of many paths, where nature and the artists feelings are merely raw material.

  Wolf Kahn

  Art, Thinking, People

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• Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi.

  Tahir Shah

  Varanasi, Primaries

  Tahir Shah “Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com

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• Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

  Walter Isaacson

  Spiritual, Important, World

  "Steve Jobs’s ‘journey for enlightenment’". Interview with Sally Quinn, www.onfaith.co.

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• In the past, kong-an (koan) practicing meant checking someone's enlightenment. Now we use kong-ans to make our lives correct. . . . You must use kong-ans to take away your opinions. When you take away your opinions, your mind is clear like space, which means from moment to moment you can reflect any situation and respond correctly and meticulously.

  Seungsahn

  Life, Mean, Past

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• Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight.

  Lew Welch

  Needs, Flashlights

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• The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the very search for enlightenment prevents it. The 'perfect practice' is therefore not to search for enlightenment but to inquire into the motive for seeking itself. You obviously seek in order to avoid the present, and yet the present alone holds the answer: to seek forever is to miss the point forever. You always already are enlightened Spirit, and therefore to seek Spirit is simply to deny Spirit.

  Ken Wilber

  Spiritual, Order, Practice

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• Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound they may seem, are like nets which trap us in dualism. When we discover our limits we have to try to overcome them, untying ourselves from whatever type of religious, political, or social conviction may contain us. We have to abandon such concepts as 'enlightenment', 'the nature of the mind', and so on, until we no longer neglect to integrate our knowledge with our actual existence.

  Namkhai Norbu

  Religious, Real, Roots

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• Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Earthquakes, Soul

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The collected works”

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• Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

  Frank Jackson

  Motivational, Determination, Smart

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• The fountain of information lies at your fingertips and is accessible anywhere at anytime and schools need to emphasize this. We are no longer in a world where you need to go seek enlightenment, it is everywhere.

  Christopher Myers

  Lying, School, Technology

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• If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.

  Russell Simmons

  Beautiful, Encouragement, Rushing

  Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow (2011). “Super Rich: A Guide to Having It All”, p.12, Penguin

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• Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!

  Immanuel Kant

  Courage, Lying, Men

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• Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

  Robin Sharma

  Powerful, Book, Self

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.137, Jaico Publishing House

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• Gordon Nelson is not only my friend, he's my mentor. He is a master craftsman with unique experience, and an approach to creativity that we can all learn from. For any hairdresser looking for enlightenment, look no further than a man who worked at the original Vidal Sassoon Salon, and who continues to strive for innovation in the industry.

  Nick Arrojo

  Creativity, Unique, Men

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